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I realize that technically according to Mr. Ewing, Mr. Dastoor won the right to start this thread, but I am bored and Mr. Dastoor has not availed himself of that right for some time.

This will be like the first thread, in that you should continue on in a similar manner, and I will keep an eye out for winning conditions to be met, which conditions only I and an independent accounting firm (well OK just me) are aware of.

So, starting things off is PIL's "Careering". Take it away...

― Josh, Saturday, 16 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Passage to Hades" by Evan Parker and Jah Wobble.

― Marcello Carlin, Saturday, 16 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jah War by The Ruts.

― DG, Saturday, 16 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Ruts have a song on the punk comp Burning Ambitions, which also includes the Dead Kennedys' "Holiday in Cambodia".

― Patrick, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jello Biafra to Lard's "Forkboy" on the Natural Born Killers Soundtrack.

― bnw, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Trent Reznor / NIN features on that soundtrack with the song Burn.

― mrs stevie nixed, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Which ain't a patch on "Burn, Hollywood, Burn".

― Josh, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(reflexively) Big Daddy Kane's bars on "Burn Hollywood Burn" make him a top contender for best guest verse of all time, which Ethan contends is Nas's, off Chef Raekwon's "Verbal Intercourse". Raekwon compared Ecstasy to Anacin in the pages of Vice Magazine, prompting a friend to wonder if he didn't get some "bad shit". "Bad Shit" was on

the first Porno for Pyros album.

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

PfP leading us to Perry Farrell, and hence Lee Perry who let all those cows into the studio during the making of the magnificent:

"Heart of the Congos" by The Congos.

― Michael Jones, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The upper reaches of the river Congo are the setting for Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness', which leads us to the Pere Ubu song of that name.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pere Ubu named themselves after a play by Jarry, who also wrote "Crucifixion As an Uphill Bicycle Race" which was parodied by J.G. Ballard, who of course wrote 'Crash', which is the title of an album by the lovely and talented Dave Matthews Band.

― tarden, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Ballard parody of which I speak is "Assassination of JFK as a Downhill Motor Race", in case you think I was being disingenuous.

― tarden, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Crash" (Ballard-infuenced) being the subject matter of Normal's "Warm Leatherette".

― Janne Vanhanen, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But what does that have to do with the Dave Matthews Band?

― tarden, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

**'Crash', which is the title of an album by the lovely and talented Dave Matthews Band. **

Am I on crack or what?

― Janne Vanhanen, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Which leads us to just a Gigolo (sp?) by the ineffable David lee Roth

― Geoff, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mr. Roth, of course, lent his (a-hem) pipes in "tribute" to Roy Orbison's "Oh Pretty Woman". Obvious, yes, but sometimes a good volley does include a few lame-duck lobs.

― David Raposa, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And from "Pretty Woman" we arrive at "Pretty In Pink" by the Psychedelic Furs.

― Dave M., Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The John Hughes movie "Pretty in Pink" (whose soundtrack includes the Furs song) has "Thieves Like Us" by New Order playing in the scene where they are preparing for the prom.

― Alex Huynh, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

New Order obv. evolved out of Joy Division.

― Robin Carmody, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

As the story goes, Ian hangs himself while listening to Iggy's "The Idiot."

― bnw, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And The Nightingales recorded amongst other gems - "Idiot Strength".

― Dr. C, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Released a record on Cherry Red just like Momus.

― Stevie Nixed, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Who has had an, erm, *frosty* relationship with Alan McGee.

― Robin Carmody, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Swiss metallers Celtic Frost — singer Tom G.Warrior — achieved their peak with 'Dawn of Meggido' on _To Mega Therion_

― mark s, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Young Gods are from Switzerland, and they released the finest album of the 90s Only Heaven.

― DJ Martian, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Heaven Or Las Vegas' is a Cocteau Twins album.

― DG, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

....whose Robin Guthrie lives in Twickenham, the same place that the Strawbs were from. They had a number one with the wretched "Part of the Union".

― Dr. C, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Rick Wakeman (ugh) played with the Strawbs before joining Yes, whose Bill Bruford quit and joined King Crimson, whose "Red" Kurt Cobain supposedly enjoyed.

― Josh, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bill Nelson's Red Noise — his less successful Devoid follow-up to Bebop Deluxe — several times turned up to a show to find they had been billed as "Red Nose"

― mark s, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Westlife recorded a version of 'Uptown Girl' for Comic Relief this year, who of course have their 'Red Nose Day'.

― DG, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Rose Rouge" by St. Germain absolutely blew me away at Frank's Lounge on Friday - the dancefloor started doing mincing little tippy-toe dancing, as if a too-strenuous booty shake would upset the needle, or the mood. Everyone imagined themselves as noir detectives. My friend Amy, who lives a 10-minute walk away from Frank's, has a pilot TV show based on her life - the show's name is also the name of an Elvis Costello song,

"Watching the Detectives"

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

whew. DG and mark got in ahead of me but I think my connect still (kind of) works? not like the original was that solid anyway. Could this be a divergence (Elvis Costello and Westlife)?

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"The Detectives" was a TV show which unfortunately progressed well beyond the pilot stage, and starred Jasper Carrot (whose 1975 hit I won't mention) and Robert Powell as a pair of bumbling 'tecs. RP was Jesus in Franco Zefferelli's 1977 internatiTVbiblefest. Hence:

Gavin Bryars' "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet".

― Michael Jones, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Blood, which is red (cf. Westlife), makes an appearance in Costello's "Blood and Chocolate". Coincidentally, Tom Waits has performed "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet". He also wrote a song called "Chocolate Jesus," which isn't quite the same as the Flaming Lips' "Plastic Jesus".

― Josh, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Er, so that's the Costello I'm following up on, not the Flaming Lips, right?

The *other* EC took his surname from an area of East London, next to Hackney. Another word for hackneyed is 'trite', which makes me think of the (seemingly unconnected*) word 'contrite' and, specifically:

"An Heart That's Broken and Contrite" by John Dowland.

(*Well, how do you get from 'commonplace' to 'remorseful' just by sticking 'con-' in front of something? The Pinefox and I have wasted entire afternoons in South London parks on topics like this).

― Michael Jones, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

[Hey, don't ask Old-Pedant-Holds-Forth type Qs on a thread where Old Pedant is not allowed to Hold Forth!! Ans = both from root Latin terere/tritus, to rub or bruise. Trite = worn. Contrite = penitent = bruised eg from self-flag'n]

― mark s, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Highest-charting (only?) hit single in Latin is "Gaudete" by Steeleye Span, which reached its chart peak in Christmas week 1973 when the number one was "Merry Xmas Everybody" by Slade.

― Robin Carmody, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Slade was the name of the prison in 'Porridge', the protagonist of said sitcom being Fletcher, played by Ronnie Barker. One time Gamesmaster host Dexter Fletcher was in the abysmal 'Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels', which featured 'Hundred Mile High City' by the even worse Ocean Colour Scene on the soundtrack.

― DG, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

See what happens when you invoke the pedant? It's become complete unstuck!! Repair job = Dowland played the lute which is a kind of mandolin, which is an instrument not heard much since Rod Stewart's solo LPs: Rod the Mod loves football which is where Vinnie Jones comes in. Another musican called Vinnie is Vinnie Reilly formerly of Ed Banger and Nosebleeds, who recorded "Ain't Bin to No Music School". (Phew)

― mark s, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (which I quite liked) featured many "Guns", hence Negativland.

― bnw, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Vini Reilly went on to the Durutti Column who recorded a track called "Otis" constructed around Otis Redding cut-ups. Otis Redding's first major UK hit was "My Girl" written by Smokey Robinson.

― Robin Carmody, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Smokey Robinson's "Tears Of A Clown" was covered by The [English] Beat.

― Patrick, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Obvious Offer #2: The Go-Go's. "We've Got the Beat". Duuuur. (Anyone want to make a connection to EU?)

― David Raposa, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Carmine Appice of the Vanilla Fudge -- who recorded an album called The Beat Goes On -- went on to tour with Jeff Beck, and criticized fellow Beck-bandmate Kim Milford (a vocalist who'd worked on Jesus Christ Superstar) as "...like a go-go dancer. The crowd couldn't take him."

― Phil, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Norman Greenbaum had a song called "Spirit In THe Sky" in which he sez he gotta friend in Jesus.

― JM, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

SITS was covered by Elton John

― Stevie Nixed, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And George Michael was busted in a john, so Careless Whispers oughta do it.

― Geoff, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Guilty feet ain't got no rhythm", sings Yog. Gershwin kind of backs this up in "I Got Rhythm" where he says that Ol man trouble won't come knocking at his door (cuz, presumably, he is innocent). That said James Brown claimed that "I got rhythms I haven't used yet" and he *was* guilty (of speeding). So therefore Foetus, "Free James Brown (So He Can Run Me Down)".

― Tom, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's some joke (the precise form of which I've forgotten) involving George Michael and the UK chocolate bar Wispa... which makes me think of Bounty and hence:

Kid Creole and the Coconuts: "Stool Pigeon"

(Mark S: that was top-kwal info, ta. Perhaps Southwark Council could pay you to be the Pedant In The Park, sparing Foxy and I such open-space puzzlement).

― Michael Jones, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Doh! Divergence...

Coconuts contain milk. Foetuses (foeti?) *don't*, but they do need plenty of the stuff shortly after they've stopped being foetuses (foeti?). Hence:

Partick Hernandez: "Born To Be Alive".

― Michael Jones, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(Oops... Partick Hernandez later became Partick Thistle, of course; am I back on the stats page, yet?).

― Michael Jones, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Madonna applied for the backing band of Hernandez in the early eighties/ late seventies.

― Stevie Nixed, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Los Bros Hernandes wrote the fabulous comic, Love and Rockets.

Love and Rockets evolved out of twisted art school glam gone goth band, Bauhaus.

― masonic boom, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bauhaus is an art style. White Stripes released De Stijl.

― Stevie Nixed, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Stijl Pulse released 'Handsworth Revolution'. The Revolution was Prince's back-up band. Prince's middle name is Nelson. Nelson only had one arm, just like Def Leppard's drummer, whose song embrace-the-apocalypse song "Armageddon It" roXor.

― mark s, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Human League like Def Leppard are from Sheffield and are soon to release an new album Secrets.

― DJ Martian, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"My Secret Garden" by Depeche Mode comes off of the amazingly patchy album _A Broken Frame_. (I hope I did that right...)

― Dan Perry, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And who could forget Roddy Frame, leader of Aztec Camera who started off on the legendary Postcard label?

― Nicole, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

On which Josef K recorded the "Radio Drill Time" 45

― Dr. C, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Josef K is not to be confused with Tonio K, who called Jackson Browne a motherfucker on his first album.

― Patrick, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jackson Browne's 'From Silver Lake' is mentioned in the Field Mice's "And Before The First Kiss"

― Nick, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And by the way, I'm mad as hell for this thread being started without my permission. Can't a man bide his time, goddamit?

― Nick, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Some people were mad as hell about Pearl Jam's turgid cover of "Last Kiss".

― Nicole, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"One More Kiss" (then we're history) was a fabulous song by Californian neo-psych/shoegazing band, Medicine.

― masonic boom, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

D'oh, I mean, "One Last Kiss". I can't even get lyrics right today.

― masonic boom, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Just One Kiss" by the Cure is just the thing to reverse the effects of Bon Jovi's "Bad Medicine".

― Dan Perry, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

_One Last Kiss_ was an indie-pop compilation released by SpinArt Records back in The Day (TM), and, among many other songs, featured a quite young Magnetic Fields (w/ Susan Anway on vocals, if I'm not mistaken) performing "100,000 Fireflies". Of course, one reason that the Mag. Fields quickly ascended the indie-rock ladder was due in no small part to Superchunk, whose version of "100,000 Fireflies" is probably more known than the original version.

Superchuck once recorded a song called "Cool". Not far from the 'Chunk's home state of North Carolina (though a few years before their time), Pylon (Athens, GA) also recorded a song called "Cool". Silkworm (ah, "indie rock") once referenced "clipping the pylon's edge" ("It's a rookie mistake / It'll end on the rookie's head") in a song ("Tarnished Angel") on their first release for Matador Records, _Firewater_. (Of course, Matador Records was once home to, yes, Superchunk.)

And I'm spent.

― David Raposa, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Silkworm'sFirewater was...*engineered* by Albini who was in a few *disco* bands such as Rapeman, Big Black and Shellac.

― Stevie Nixed, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Big Black was on Touch and Go, as was the Jesus Lizard. Bang.

― bnw, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Lizard' was an album by King Crimson, and 'The Crimson Idol' was a record by W*A*S*P

― tarden, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

W*A*S*P was rumored to stand for "We Are Sexual Perverts" (at least at my school). "Perverts" is a song on

the new Thou album ..!!

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thousand Yard Stare was a low-rank shoegazer outfit who got their name from a syndrome suffered by grunts in Vietnam. Vietnam was the name of an LP by Shockabilly, the band that starred Eugene Chadbourne, who sometimes plays electric rake.

― mark s, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Thou' is an old imperial unit, equal to 1/1000th of an inch. I understand the term 'mil' is preferred in the US. Hence:

Milli Vanilli: "Girl You Know It's True"

― Michael Jones, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

...and that fella out of Milli Vanilli was easily as *tall* as a rake, so no divergence there...

― Michael Jones, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Eugene Chadbourne's "Perverts of Northridge" is kind of a stupid song, and so is "Girl You Know It's True" -- The Rolling Stones' "Stupid Girl" was covered by Garbage and released as a single in 1996.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

...and, since Bon Jovi _is_ garbage, I can tie up my mini-divergence from a couple of posts back by mentioning "I'll Be There For You"!

― Dan Perry, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Which is also the title of the theme song from "Friends" which has been shown in the UK on Sky One which is cross-owned with The Sun. The album "Nothing Like The Sun" was by Sting.

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, "I Don't Believe in the Sun".

― Josh, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There was a time when Cher's "Believe" was inescapable. Plus: She married "SON"ny Bono! ( sorry.)

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"The Beat Goes On" by the All Seeing I was a danced-up reworking of the same song by Sonny and Cher. Meanwhile, "New Years Dub" by Some Chancer was recently a danced up version of "New Years Day" by U2 featuring that other Bono. The beat from NYD though had been used 7 years before on:

DJ Shadow - Lost And Found

― Tom, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Another Shadow, Morton of that ilk, produced the Shangri-Las, whose "Past, Present And Future" was the structural starting point for "Various Times" by The Fall.

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

DJ Shadow no doubt "lost and found" many different things at his home in the Temescal apartment complex on Sycamore street in Davis, California, where he used to live (across the street from me!) The fact that sycamores are native to Egypt is a piece of botanical trivia no doubt lost upon Pharoah Sanders who titled himself after the rulers of ancient Egypt, who currently lives about a half hour away from Davis, California, and who used to cut records with Wah Wah Watson -- who can be said to be to the guitar what Jah Wobble is to the bass. Therefore, PIL's "Careering".

― Kris, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Various Times" proving that Mark E Smith was at least as interested in death camps and nazi psychoanalysis as John Lydon was, a theme further explored by Rush in "Red Sector A".

― Kris, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The clone-counterpart of the robot Sektor in Mortal Kombat 3 was Cyrax, whose name sounds rather like Cyrix, whose recent processors are far faster than the CPU used in the eponymous "cyberpunk band" 386 DX, led by Russian ("Rush in") Alexei Shulgin.

― Phil, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I seem to remember Alexei Shulgin sponsoring a "Form Art" competition on the nettime mailing list some years back (whatever happened to that?). Alexei's attitude towards found materials reminds me of RUN-DMC's "Walk This Way", which made a journey from studio lark to full-on remake - much like...

Madonna's "American Pie"

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The most American of pies being, of course, Apple, the label of our good friends Badfinger (who were also heavily cribbed by other apples, our Apples in Stereo).

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can't hear "Badfinger" without thinking of Soundgarden and "Rusty Cage" from Badmotorfinger.

― Josh, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Soundgarden started out on SST so did Husker DU, who released a number of fine albums on SST including Zen Aracade before moving to Warner Brothers.

― DJ Martian, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Zen Arcade.

― DJ Martian, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Husker Du is Swedish for "do you remember?", and do you remember that other great Swedish pop sensation, Abba?

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They won the eurosong festival, Celine Dion also participated in that hip event - a few laters of course.

― Stevie Nixed, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

a few *years* later. or is that centuries?

― Stevie Nixed, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dion & the Belmonts' "Runaround Sue", rumoured to be about somebody with venereal disease, sort of like "WHy Does It Hurt When I Pee" by Frank Zappa.

― tarden, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Frank Zappa and Paula Yates both loved giving their kids daft names; Ron Yeats could never be accused of such behaviour, but *did* put through his own goal in the 1966 European Cup Winners' Cup final, a match played at Hampden Park, Glasgow. This was also the venue for The Greatest European Club Final Of All Time (Until Last Month) - Real Madrid's 7-3 win over Eintracht Frankfurt in 1960.

Hence: Prefuse 73: "Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives"

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Frank Zappa manufactured and produced the girl group, the GTO's, of which Pamela Des Barres was a member. Good old Pammy enjoyed a long and naughty underage groupie sex affair with Jimmy Page. Now we've got this thread away from that nasty football nubbins and back on the right page again.

― masonic boom, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pammy's 1st groupie experience was (apparently) giving DON VAN VLIET aka CAPT BEEFHEART a hand job!

― duane zarakov, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

shit , sorry, it was supposed to be something about Jimmy Page. OK he was mentioned in "Rock Show" by WINGS, & Paul McCartney married EX- GROUPIE Linda E. & Pamela Des Barres was a famous GROUPIE & like i just said(...) CAPT. BEEFHEART.

― duane, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The line "it's the blimp"in a Beefheart song was sampled by dEUS.

― Stevie Nixed, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Deuce" is the opening track on KISS ALIVE!

― tarden, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The opposite of kissing alive people is kissing dead people. The Nic Roeg/Art Garfunkel film 'Bad Timing' touches on the thorny issue of necrophilia. Is that title supposed to be hilariously inappropriate euphemism/excuse for shagging dead people? ("If only I'd got there a day sooner no one would have batted an eyelid!" cries the culprit as he is hauled off the corpse by the cops). Anyway, The Billie Holliday song "It's The Same Old Story" runs over the end credits to the film.

― Nick, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

[Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday Holiday — OP]

― mark s, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Greil Marcus pontificated on the significance of the Sex Pistols' "Holidays In the Sun" for a number of pages in his weighty tome Lipstick Traces.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Which 'Lipstick Traces' song are you picking to link to, Nicole?

― Nick, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

er, Holidays In the Sun?

As a link to the Holliday/Holiday refs above? Sadly, even in print I am using upspeak.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So the Griel Marcus bit is kind of redundant, yeah? (I like this upspeak - is that really what it's called? Especially since Stephen Fry moaned about it?)

― Nick, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I just like picking on Greil and to throw in a gratuitous reference? He has some really interesting theories on things but gets a bit tiresome in the long run?

― Nicole, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Lipstick' soundtrack by Michel Polnareff!

― tarden, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Greil Marcus' "Rock Death In The 70s: A Sweepstakes" starts with a rant against the overuse in pop culture of the word "survivor", which has been obnoxiously revived by Destiny's Child.

― Patrick, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Guns N roses had ahit with Sweet Child o Mine, and Tommy what's his face from The Replacements is now in Guns N Roses, and Westerberg's Hair always reminds me of Dave Pirner who fucked Winona Rider who fucked Johhny Depp, so how's about the theme from 21 Jump Street, which kinda ties back into the GNR link, via the 21 gun salute, Traci Gun being a founder of GNR, who later went on to form LA Guns. AAARgh

― Geoff, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thanks for instigating that new rule, Kate - if you don't like the way a connection was made you can jump back one. Let's hope it doesn't lead to chaos.

I naturally detest all mention of Guns'N'Roses, so I'll stick with Destiny's Child...

Spear of Destiny... Billie Jo Spears: "Blanket On The Ground"

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

One Perfect Green Blanket by Barbara Manning

― Stevie Nixed, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bernard Manning did 'comedy' at his own Embassy Club, Embassies are cigarettes, and through slang mangled as it crosses the Atlantic we get 'Faget' by Korn

― tarden, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Run DMC wrote a song about (my) ADIDAS, just like Korn.

― Stevie Nixed, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The first bit of ADIDAS backwards is SADI. Come had an album I bought cause of a Melody Maker review and then regretted it, one of the tracks on which was 'Sad Eyes'

― Nick, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If you move the space, you get Sade Yes, and hey, how about that Trevor Horn?

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Who produced Dollar, who covered "I Want To Hold Your Hand" by the Beatles.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The secretly reformed Beatles were rumoured to be the anonymous Klaatu, whose song Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft was recorded by karen Carpenter, heroine of an all-doll movie directed by Todd Haynes, who also directed Velvet Goldmine, which featured made-up band the Maxwell Demons, in hommage to a 60s band that Eno often said he was in, but probably also just made up.

― mark s, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Another Rhode Island School of Design grad created the group that wrote the 80's smash:

"Burnin Down the House"

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

sorry, to clarify: Todd Haynes went to RISD, the talented arty fuck.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gibby Haynes is no relation to Todd, but made a great Butthole Surfers record called Hairway To Steven...

― suzy, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dealing with buttholes and stairways we soon find ourselves ascending the "Anal Staircase" by Coil.

― Janne Vanhanen, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oops! We have a gap up there, which I'll try to patch by stating that buttholeisms and (burnt-down) houses converge at the mentioned Coil with their label, Treshold House.

― Janne Vanhanen, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You can get Coil's soundtrack to Derek Jarman's "Blue" on that label if I'm not mistaken. Jarman had almost completely lost his sight due to AIDS when he made "Blue"; the movie is a 3hr soundtrack to an unchanging blue screen. N'Sync made extensive use of blue-screen technology in the video for their new song, "Pop", which Justin Timberlake (real name??) claimed is N'Sync's answer to two-step anthems like

"Destiny" by Dem 2

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So much for desitny
A pin prick on my knee . . .

Thus spoketh Stephen Malkmus on Pavement's Terror Twilight

― bnw, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

SM released an album called Stephen Malkmus.

― JM, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The artwork of the Watery, Domestic EP by Malkmus' old band was stolen from an old Atomic Rooster album.

― Patrick, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If a rooster were bombarded with atomic energy, the radiation might render it infertile, much like a capon. Today, I was at a computer event where lunch was served, and one of the entrees was, in fact, capon. The computer company (which shall remain nameless) has been including networking components in its PCs. This ties in nicely with the first part of the question: The Water Walk was a domestic band (thus, watery and domestic), which put its music out on the label Nettwerk.

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Water is a molecule composed of two parts Hydrogen and one part Oxygen. The element which follows Hydrogen on the periodic table would be Helium. Hence Mary Timony's band Helium and their album, The Dirt of Luck.

― bnw, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ash Bowie (Helium's bass) was in Polvo, who made the very very good "Celebrate the New Dark Age" Extended Play record. (reaches for gorp)

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ash Bowie > the band Ash.

― Stevie Nixed, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ash = from Northern Ireland, leading to "Belfast" by Boney M.

― tarden, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Belfast is in N. Ireland from whence came Stiff Little Fingers with "Suspect Device".

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Stiff Little Fingers>Stones' Sticky Fingers with on the cover the Joey D picture.

― Stevie Nixed, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sticky Fingers > Ry Cooder playing noodly blues solos > Paris, Texas > Wim Wenders > Kings of the Road > Two-Lane Blacktop > Blacktop > Mick Collins > Mick Jones > Air Supply > Bonnie Tyler (same songwriters [!!]):

"Total Eclipse of the Heart"

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Total Eclipse>Cornwall>Straw Dogs>Sam Peckinpah>"Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid"

― tarden, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Noodly>Noodles in Offspring
Total Eclipse>the band Heart (isnt one of them married to Cameron Crowe?)
Phill Collins

― Stevie Nixed, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Argh I knew this would happen! Dog > Bob Hund

― Stevie Nixed, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(throws cards to table)

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Hund" is swedish, and dragging those Old West types Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid here, we've got "Cowboy In Sweden" by Lee Hazlewood.

― Janne Vanhanen, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cowboys aare frequently secretly fond of each other by Pansy Division

― Geoff, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pansy by Ultramarine

― Dr. C, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ultravox
Kid Marine (by Pollard/Guided by Voices)

― Stevie Nixed, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Marine Research, who were once Heavenly, the Twee-est band of all time.

― masonic boom, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Heavenly being of course, the record label which is/was home to Beth Orton and Saint Etienne

― suzy, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Saints>I'm Stranded>'Stranded'Roxy Music>John Wetton>Uriah Heep

― tarden, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Uriah Heep was a rotter in 'David Copperfield'. As well as being the creepiest magician alive (against some stiff competition), David Copperfield was a TV funnyman best known for being the third of 'Three of a Kind' that didn't make it big. Tracey Ullman made it biggest, and also had a pop career so illustrious that she was nominated as Best Female Singer in the BPI awards, but presumably lost out to Annie Lennox (or was it Kate Bush? Surely not Jaki Graham?? Anyway, my favourite of Tracey's songs was her cover of 'Move Over Darling'

― Nick, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Annie Lennox >Eurythmics>Dave Stewart>directed some of the All Saints>work with William Orbit>worked with Madonna>sister in law of Joe Henry

― Stevie Nixed, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Move Over Darling' originally performed by Doris Day. Rock producer Terry Melcher was Doris Day's son. Melcher helped Charles Manson with his 'demos'. Manson also hooked up with Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys. Wilson starred in 'Two-Lane Blacktop' with James Taylor, who had a hit with 'Fire and Rain'.

― Andrew L, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

James Taylor married to Carly Simon, who wrote 'You're So Vain' about him...

― suzy, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Taylor played with Joni Mitchell

― Stevie Nixed, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Vain'>'vein'>shooting up>"Love Missile F1-11" Sigue Sigue Sputnik

― tarden, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sputnik: USSR goes into space and freaks out the US. USSR in space gave us Laika, which is a pretty fabulous group...

― suzy, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Laika > Margaret Fiedler>Played on Boo Radley's "Giant Steps"

― Dr. C, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Boo Radley>character in To Kill A Mockingbird>Mockingbird poem by Keats>...and Yeats are on your side while Wilde is on mine is Frankly Mr Shankly off The Queen Is Dead>a dead Queen is Freddie Mercury, who was Under Pressure with David Bowie

― suzy, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ted Nugent once used a bowie knife to 'autograph' a fan's arm.

One of his biggest hits was Cat Scratch Fever.

― scott, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"I got an itch to scratch, it need attention" - Creature of the night, as sung by Susan Sarandon, Rocky Horror Picture Show

― Geoff, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The "Theme From Rocky" is sometimes covered, often with hysterical results, by cult Hull band, Fonda 500.

― masonic boom, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

While Peter Fonda did the movie Easy Rider, The Byrds did an album called The Ballad of Easy Rider, and while there was still a Parsons in the band at that point, it was as disappointing as a latter-day Alan Parsons record, therefore Eric Woolfson.

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Eric Woolfson's solo album 'Freudiana'>Freud>discovery of unconscious>unconsciousness>'Too Drunk to Fuck', Dead Kennedys

― tarden, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There were many dead Kennedys, a family chronicled in Seymour Hersh's book The Dark Side of Camelot; at the same time the Kennedy family were doing their thing (and shuffling off This Mortal Coil), some blokes were cutting their teeth in various other comedy troupes, eventually coming together to form Monty Python. Hilarity ensued. Eventually, Python did the movie "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" in which they perform the show-stopping number "Camelot". Therefore: Pram.

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

in the (fucking awful) derek jarman movie "Jubilee" you see a gandg of punks fleeing from having committed some act of mayhem. sinister anti- clockwise pan to A BURNING PRAM. On the soundtrack (maybe not at that actual moment) - Brian Eno. (Or Adam & the Ants, take yr pick)

― duane, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Eno -> Bowie (Heroes) -> Kraftwerk (TEE: "Meet Iggy Pop / and David Bowie")

― Josh, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kraftwerk - werk + noodles + Velveeta =

Ad-rock's down with the Ione
Cuz she's the cheese and I'm the macaroni

Beastie Boys' Check Yo' Head

― bnw, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Beastie Boys -> Tibet -> Dali Lama -> Bald Head -> peter Garret -> Midnight Oil ->Antarctica

― Geoff, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Antarctica -> Modest Mouse -> Mouse on Mars -> Microstoria -> Oval -> Tortoise -> Luke Vibert -> kid606 -> Mike Patton -> John Zorn -> Greg Cohen -> Tom Waits

― Josh, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

what's the kid606 / Mike Patton connection? other than that they're both annoying?

Tom Waits makes me think of fucking Leon Redbone. Sad piano men. Mose Allison also, a sad piano man. Mose Allison sang "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" which is the name of a album by Iron Maiden.

― tracer Hand, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

maiden did an album called "maiden japan". Japan > d. sylvian > Holger Czukay > Can > Canned Heat. OK Canned Heat.

― duane, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Patton sang on a song.

Iron Maiden -> Goldfinger -> Sonic Youth's Silver Sessions -> Goodbye 20th Century -> Nicolas Slonimsky

― Josh, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Divergence!

Canned Heat -> John Lee Hooker -> BB King -> Leonard Feather -> Cannonball Adderly -> Nat Adderly -> Johnny 'Guitar' Watson -> Ruth Underwood -> Frank Zappa -> Edgard Varese -> Nicolas Slonimsky

― Josh, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Slonimsky was 101 when he died; the dear old Queen Mum (Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon) hits that mark in less than two months. Pierre-Laurent Aimard was born in Lyon, and is one of the foremost interpreters of Olivier Messiaen's piano works, hence:

"Turangalila-symphonie" (well, it's got piano in it).

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The 'Turangalila-symphonie' is supposed to be based on 'four cyclic themes', which leads us to Frankie Valli

― tarden, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Frankie Lymon was an early hero to Ronnie Spector (who amazingly, slept with David Bowie, but turned John Lennon down!) of the Ronettes. The Ronettes were produced by Phil Spector. Phil Spector used the famous set of session players, the Wrecking Crew, which included my personal idol, Carol Kaye, who played bass on every record from the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds to the theme from Hawaii-5-0.

― masonic boom, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Several years ago, some a$$hole art students in the flat upstairs from where I lived had a party, during which time all they played was the theme music to hawaii-5-0. By 1am, my feelings could be summed up by the dead kennedy's "CHEMICAL WARFARE"

x0x0

― Norman Fay, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

dead kennedy's->tomorrow wendy->andy prieboy->Johnette napolitano (whatever happened to her)->Concrete Blonde->Blonde on Blonde- >Dylan>The New Dylan->Loudon Wianwright111->Yoko Ono->John lennon- >German uberfraulines-Uta Lemper Under Here

― Geoff, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Under Here...."over theeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre! oooverrrrrrrrrrrrrrr theerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre!"

― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How does Loudon Wainwright III lead to Yoko Ono ?

― Patrick, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There are probably a number of ways to connect the two, like the fact that they were both included in the book Songwriters on Songwriting, but I too am wondering what the more direct connection is.

By the way, my connection was to the George M. Cohan song "Over There", from WWI, in case there was doubt.

― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

He did a song called Ono Yoko, or Yoko Ono,one of the two, that was about Lennon's death, and went "Oh no, Yoko."

― Geoff, Friday, 22 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Uta Lemper > Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. The Doors covered Brecht and Weill's "Whiskey Bar", I figure because they played at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go in L.A. and they wanted to get the crowd into it. The reigning champs of the WAGOGO were the Butterfield Blues Band who'd come out with what was at the time considered one of the greatest rock records yet:

"East-West"

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 22 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

quick fix: "Over therrrrrre"s from Yankee Doodle Dandy which also featured > "Johnny Get Your Gun" > which inspired title of Dalton Trumbo novel > which inspired > "One" by Metallica, who are California just like the Butterfield Blues Band - "East-West".

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 22 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

but is that just stupid? I mean, Uta Lemper reminds me in no way of the Butterfield Blues Band. "Yankee Doodle Dandy" still less.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 22 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'East West' was also a Hermann's Hermits song.

― Nick, Friday, 22 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Famous recent hermit Ted Kacyzynscki(sp?) - Motorhead, "Bomber"

― tarden, Friday, 22 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A B-52 is a type of bomber; then were from Athens, Georgia as (I think) were Pylon. 'Piley-On' is a terrific and violent game from my youth, in which anyone who happened to fall over in the yard at school was immediately set upon by everyone in the vicinity, until an enormous tottering mass of pre-adolescent humanity is formed, with the poor soul at the bottom suffering lasting damage to their rib-cage.

Hence:

Glen Campbell's "Where's The Playground, Susie?"

― Michael Jones, Friday, 22 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

[then = they, meaning the B-52s]

― Michael Jones, Friday, 22 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Where's The Playground, Susie" was written by Jimmy Webb who was also responsible for "Macarthur Park" which was recorded by, among others, Donna Summer.

― Robin Carmody, Friday, 22 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Cree Summer appeared on A Different World with Cosby kid Lisa Bonet, who was married to ol' Romeo Blue, Lenny Kravitz. Kravitz was the son of Roxie Roker of the Jeffersons, a show which once had a guest appearance by Sammy Davis, Jr. Therefore: the dark lord himself, Mr. Satan, surely the guiding force behind all rock and roll musik today!

― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 22 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Bette Davis Eyes"

― Stevie Nixed, Saturday, 23 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm assuming you're backing up one step and connecting to Sammy Davis Jr, instead of Satan.

― Sean Carruthers, Sunday, 24 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay okay: DJ HELL then.

― Stevie Nixed, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'Hell is for CHildren', Pat Benatar

― tarden, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Devil Is My Friend" - Pat Fish, aka the Jazz Butcher.

― masonic boom, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Kiss My Jazz with "Burn in Hell"

― Stevie Nixed, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Continuing on the Satan them: Knights in Satan's Service with their fab hit "Black Diamond".

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Black...satan.... Black Sabbath: Master of Reality!

― bnw, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

master of Puppets by metallica, also had an album that came to be galled the Black album, after taking a bit from the Beatles and the White album. White is a color, like Pink, which is a bad song by Aerosmith and an irritating little white girl rap/singer thing. She's in the Lady Marmalade bit with Mecha-Christina and Mya, who, as I stated perviously, has nice thighs.

― JM, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Was that 'perviously' on purpose, jimmy? I like it.

― Nick, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Guilty!

― JM, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't like the direction this is heading, so let's pull this back to Satan. American Thighs was the name of a Veruca Salt album, and it was named after a line in "You Shook Me All Night Long" By AC/DC, who were Against Christ / Devil's Children, and who were once on the HIGHWAY TO HELL.

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ACDC also did Highway To Hell. Life is a Highway is a song that's advertised late at night on comp discs. Comp discs are good when they're put out by good lables like Darla, or Kill Rock Stars, which had a band called Bikini Kill. Kathleen hannah was in Bikini kill and also did a cover of a song called "I Wish I Was Him." Then she went and did that Julie Ruin ep and later did that Le Tigre thing with that indie filmmaker that I hate. The Moral? kathleen hannah was an ex-stripper and has nice thighs.

― JM, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Someone else who stripped, prior to her music career, was Traci Lords, who is not to confused with Lords of the New Church, a project put together by Stiv Bators (and oddly enough, a group that covered "Like a Virgin" by Madonna, another artist with a quasi- religious name). As an added aside, Stiv used to be in the Dead Boys, where he performed the classic number "Sonic Reducer"; this fab number was later covered by the faux-punk reunion band Hard Core Logo, the frontman of whom was played convincingly by Hugh Dillon, the lead singer of Headstones...something which you will often find near dead boys.

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Don't Put No Headstone On My Grave" was sung by Charlie Rich, who once, while presenting an award a country music ceremony, got his lighter out and set fire to the envelope declaring John Denver a winner.

― Patrick, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

John Denver is Dead. Like Keith Moon.

― JM, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Keith Moon's 1975 solo album was called 'Two Sides Of The Moon' and featured Ringo Starr, who used to be in an obscure 60s pop act called The Beatles.

― DG, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Beatles->Yesterday->Envogue->Suck->Suck my Kiss - RHCP->Take out the c, you have RHP->Red House Painters->Mark Kozalek (who has released an enitre album of ACDC covers)->Almost Famous (kozalek was the bass player)->Banky (who was the singer)->Alanis Morisette (who was god in DOgma)(and who also sux)->Morrisey->last Night on Maudulin St.

― Geoff, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I would imagine Maudlin St. to be somewhere near Facination Street, non?

― JM, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Fascination Street is a place where you'd Keep Feeling Fascination as long as you were there, making you a member of the Human League. One of the cohorts of the Human League was Giorgio Moroder, who also worked with Heaven 17, who took their name from A Clockwork Orange. Therefore: Ludwig Van Beethoven.

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What a coinky-dink! Ludwig has the same last name as Camper!

― JM, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Camper took the skinheads bowling and The Big Lebowski was about bowling and Beefheart was on the soundtrack with a song about eyes being a million blue miles, and Miles Davis sold millions of his album Kind Of Blue.

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Too many pills, too little time to do them."

Make Up's "Blue is Beautiful" from the album _I Want Some_

― bnw, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Yummy Fur have a song called 'I Am 'Consumer Man'' and another version of it called 'I Am 'Cosmetic Man''.

― youn, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

One of the most popular cosmetics is lipstick. Lipstick Traces was a book (and now a musical!) by Greil Marcus. Betcha think I'm going to take this to one of the subjects of his books, right? Nope: The Rock Bottom Remainders, in which he performed periodically (also featuring other authors such as Stephen King, Amy Tan, Roy Blount, Jr. and more!)

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Amy Tan had a novel named Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book. Jazz standards are performed from Fakebooks, and who wrote more standards than George Gershwin? Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue became the theme to Delta airlines. Delta 72 is a band.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

delta blues genre with john lee hooker

― Stevie Nixed, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Interesting leap you made from Amy Tan to Maxine Kingston there, Sterl.

― Josh, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'Funky Kingston' - Toots

― tarden, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Whoops...let's go back and close that gap up. "Delta 88" was a song from the Rheostatics, from Toronto (a town with hookers). Rheostatics opened up one of the tours from Canada's most popular band, the Tragically Hip, who are from Kingston, Ontario...so Toots and the Maytalls' "Kingston Town".

By the way, Josh...are any of us getting anywhere CLOSE to winning conditions?

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not sure I have any way to judge that.

Town? Chicago is a town. A city, you might say. And also a band.

― Josh, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Damn you and your pedantry, Josh. But yr. right. So. Amy Tan had a book named The Kitchen God's Wife. The Godz' first album was named Contact High. City High is produced by Wyclef, who had a hit song based around a Bee Gees sample. The Bee Gees soundtracked Saturday Night Fever, along with The Trammps. The Lady And The Tramp is a Disney film about dogs. Iggy wanted to be your dog. The Stooges coalesced around Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ann Arbor is relatively close to Chicago. Chicago named their albums with numbers, as did Led Zepplin. Zepplin sucked. The Supersuckers' first album was called The Smoke of Hell.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"John E Smoke" was a song from the Butthole Surfers. The Beach Boys were probably the most famous people who sang about surfing, and one of the members was Mike Love. Love recorded "Alone Again Or", which was later covered by The Damned.

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'Goddamn those half-japanese girls' sez Rivers Cuomo on El Scorcho off of Pinkerton, Weezer's second album. Half-Japanese is a band with a song called "Red Dress." Lady In Red is a song. A song that sucks. It sucks in the way that "Ska Sucks."

― JM, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In the same way that Primus sucks?

― bnw, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Primus->Southpark theme->Chef->Suck on my chocolate salty balls->I once had a girlfriend who did that to me->She also had an affair (not while with me) with Silvio Rodriguez->He is cuban, so hasta Siempre, Comandante is dediccated to Che Guevara, which could link us up with the manics->If it does, well there's richy, and hey->Happy Days theme, via Cuninghams.

― Geoff, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Happy Days" = '70s version of "That '70s Show" ("Dazed & Confused" = "American Grafitti")->"In the Street" by Big Star. = crappily obvious MOJO-magazine band...MOJO -> Jim Morrison -> the Doors did a "song" called "Horse Latitudes", Elvis Costello did 1 called "King Horse" on an album that started with IIRC a Sam & Dave song...

― duane, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(hey sorry to interrupt the flow, but Mike Love recorded "Alone Again Or" - where, when?)

― duane, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(Jump from Mike Love to the band Love.)

― Josh, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sam & Dave's big hit was 'Soul Man', which lent its title to a dreadful 1986 film in which C. Thomas Howell blacks up in order to win a ethnic minority scholarship to Harvard. I see that Howell's illustrious Hollywood career extends to small part in 1995 Liz Hurley flash-vehicle 'Mad Dogs & Englishmen', named after the Noel Coward song.

― Nick, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mad Dogs & Englishmen also being a live Joe Cocker album -> doo-wop group the Spaniels.

― Patrick, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

When cocker spaniels are young and thin (like Jarvis), they would be a Skinny Puppy. The Pup moved from Nettwerk to American, the home of Wesley Willis. Wesley Willis not only wrote a song called "I Whipped Batman's Ass", he also wrote an ode to Silverchair.

― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Silverchair are a Nirvana from Australia, and Savage Garden are from Australia but more like Erasure. Eraser Errata are a art-punk girl band who opened for Unwound. Unwound's newest album is "Leaves Turn Inside You" and Sonic Youth had an album titled "A Thousand Leaves" and a thousand is 1k and Sleater-Kinney had a song about Y2k titled "Banned From The End of The World" and it was on their album "The Hot Rock" and "Hot Rocks" of course was the title of the Rolling Stones best-of, and a man was murdered when the stones played Altamont, and Ornette Coleman played ALTO SAX. Coleman played jazz, but if he played rock he might have had more groupies and then ALOT OF SEX, and David Lee Roth of Van Halen did indeed have many groupies.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

David Lee Roth to Dave Lee Travis. Travis is a band that a lot of people on this board find intensely annoying. However, members of Travis have been known to be fans of... THE LOLLIES!!!

― masonic boom, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Lollies are of course d**mpatrol's favorite band, said individual notoriously being an alleged friend of Alan McGee, which leads us to "Me And Bobby McGee" by Kris Kristofferson.

― Patrick, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Kristofferson was a Rhodes scholar, as was Bill Clinton, who became synonymous with certain activities, thus "The Bitch Sucks Dick" by Oaktown's finest Too $hort

― tarden, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Paul Simon, who is very short, is (or used to be) married to the much taller Edie Brickell, whose second album had John Lydon doing backing vocals. PIL's "Religion" leads us to Pope John Paul II's Abba Pater album. Abba's "Does Your Mother Know" had Bjorn or Benny singing lead vocals, kind of like how The Pogues' Cait O'Riordan sang a rare female lead vocal on "I'm A Man You Don't Meet Everyday".

― Patrick, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Everyday" is a stand-out track on the last Sea and Cake album 'Oui'. 'Oui' is French for 'Yes', and if Yes had *been* French their lead singer's name would have been 'Jean'. So,

"Blue Jean", by Mr David Bowie.

― Michael Jones, Sunday, 1 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Billy Jean is not my lover. Once and for all.

― JM, Sunday, 1 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

OK, Michael wins.

― Josh, Sunday, 1 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, and no, I don't know what the prize will be yet, since you live in London (is that still correct?), Michael, whereas I do not.

― Josh, Sunday, 1 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two weeks pass...

Cripes! I've only just seen this! My luck really is changing...

Yes, I do live in London and I'd *like* to say that closing this thread (and so gaining the right to - gasp - *start one of my own*) and emulating Dastoor is its own reward. But it's not. I want a pint of gin like what Nick got.

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, maybe I will work something out with Tom. But I still think a pint of gin is a bit much. ;)

― Josh, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

six months pass...

In reply to: Carmine Appice of the Vanilla Fudge -- who recorded an album called The Beat Goes On -- went on to tour with Jeff Beck, and criticized fellow Beck-bandmate Kim Milford (a vocalist who'd worked on Jesus Christ Superstar) as "...like a go-go dancer. The crowd couldn't take him."

-- Phil (phil@masstransfer.net), June 17, 2001.

***Appice and Beck were stupid for not keeping Kim Milford; that man had vocals that could soar! Too bad Beck and Appices egos were so fragile that they had to play so loud they drowned him out in concert. They could have used a great singer like Kim;; why do you think beck picked him after hearing him in Jesus Christ Superstar? Because he thought he had a great voice...too bad Beck didn't like playing with someone more talented than himself.

― Mary Ann, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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